“We don’t have a stronger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French people.”
Quite what the French have done to merit this kind of high praise from the US president is difficult to fathom, and if the White House means what it says this represents an extraordinary sea change in US foreign policy. Nicolas Sarkozy is a distinctly more pro-American president than any of his predecessors, and has been an important ally over issues such as Iran and the War on Terror. But to suggest that Paris and not London is Washington’s strongest partner is simply ludicrous. And rather hypocritical after it was recently revealed that the US Ambassador to France had described Sarkozy as “thin-skinned and authoritarian”.
As the British press has noted, "These kinds of presidential statements matter. No US president in modern times has described France as America’s closest ally, and such a remark is not only factually wrong but also insulting to Britain..."
I hope our British friends don't think that Obama speaks for all of the American people.
He is probably trying to fix the fiascos that George W. Bush did with condemning the French and telling Americans to order freedom fries (what a moronic thing to say).
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